What started in Maryland is spreading. A running club with zombies that chase you. It's about survival of the fittest.

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.

School strikes, non-violent direct action, office sit-ins. It feels like something might be building.

The digital currency is in its death throes.

Biochar, the "co product" of burning wood or agricultural waste in a pyrolitic (oxygen free) environment, has

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

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PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

There are 446 Bridges, Most with Pedestrian Sidewalks! This great video by our friend Clarence over at StreetFilms gives an excellent overview of Pittsburgh's bike culture and infrastructure. Having never been, and because Pittsburgh isn't as well

He's not exactly treating it like a crisis. But at least he's doing something...

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Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

Instead of banning cars from city centers, this automaker recommends elevated roads for electric bikes & scooters to ease congestion and emissions.

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The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.

The number is probably far higher than you think.

Pollinator power, y'all.

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

This is green energy writ large. Very large...

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

Robert Rubin saves " the last, monumental prototype that Bucky was working on when he died".

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

Wannabe vegetarians can fulfill their cravings using scent, rather than the real thing.

If you're in the Netherlands, your bikeshed must be huge, but what qualifies as a bikeshed in your city?

You might want to rethink that dream house by the ocean.

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, maybe another flood? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the U.S. to Canada. The

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...

This looks a bit like the Hoth rebel station in Return of the Jedi...

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.

It's a miracle of sorts, transforming a pile of sticks into a traveling machine.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

A small family business is selling replicas/interpretations of the homes made famous by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Don't let a passing crisis, serious though it is, distract you from the real fight.

No longer will hunters be able to buy the right to kill this majestic apex predator.

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?